One of the two men charged in connection with the 2006 shooting death of 19-year-old Sean Hill in Norwich rejected a plea deal Wednesday.

Gregory L. Smith, 29, rejected the state’s offer of 13 years followed by an unspecified amount of special parole, according to court officials. Smith would have been required to plead to a charge of first-degree manslaughter with a firearm.

With the rejection, Smith’s case moves to the trial list with an unspecified start date.

Hill’s body was discovered shortly after midnight on June 3, 2006, at the rear of 60 Boswell Ave. He had been shot in the abdomen at close range, reports show. At the time of the shooting, an acquaintance of Hill was robbed and pistol-whipped inside the apartment complex at 64 Boswell Ave. and chased outside.

Witnesses now say it was Gathers who fired the shot that killed Hill, according to police reports. But in 2006, Norwich police had applied for a warrant charging the men with murder. The warrant was never signed because of an apparent lack of evidence.

Gathers was arrested in November 2006 on robbery charges connected to Hill’s shooting death and in 2008 was convicted of first-degree robbery with a firearm and sentenced to four years in prison and three years’ special parole in connection with the robbery.